Rare million-dollar Aston Martin Lagonda luxury saloon available at Nicholas Mee

IN BRIEF

- The 190mph Lagonda Taraf supersaloon was launched in Europe at the 2015 Geneva motor show with a price of $1million excl. taxes.
- Likely fewer than 60 built; the last-ever petrol engined Lagonda motor car; the spiritual heir to the famously William Towns-designed four-door Lagonda ‘Wedge’ of the 1980s.
- Left-hand-drive 2016 Lagonda Taraf, with only 150km covered from new, now available at Nicholas Mee & Co’s Hertfordshire showroom.
- The Lagonda company was founded in 1906. It has always produced small numbers of expensive sports, saloon and racing cars, winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1935. Famous patrons include H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Lagonda has been owned by Aston Martin since 1947, when purchased by David Brown Industries.

IN DETAIL

The Lagonda Taraf — the name implies ‘ultimate luxury’ in Arabic — was revealed to a select number of VIP customers in a private room at the 2015 Geneva International Motor Show.

It had already been shown to a few chosen Middle East clients the previous November, a customer base with great enthusiasm for the marque, one which always held the futuristic and angular 1980s William Towns-drawn saloon in high regard.

The Taraf’s modern design was executed by a team at Aston Martin’s Gaydon headquarters led by Marek Reichman. They used the company’s flexible VH architecture as a foundation on which to create an elegant four-door: